6 confirmed infected with hepatitis C virus
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November 30, 2011, Wednesday
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SIX people were confirmed to be infected with the hepatitis C virus in central China's Henan Province yesterday, after a bordering region in Anhui Province reported an outbreak of the disease on Monday.
A total of 104 people in Maqiao township of Henan's Yongcheng City have tested positive for Hepatitis C virus in a preliminary screening.
Of these, six were confirmed as hepatitis C patients in further tests, Yongcheng City health bureau said.
In Guoyang County in Anhui, 56 people, mostly children, have tested positive for the hepatitis C virus in a preliminary screening. Further tests on 16 confirmed 13 were infected.
An initial investigation by local health authorities showed all 56 received intravenous injections at a clinic in Maqiao and the reuse of needles at the clinic may have caused the outbreak.
Wu Wenyi, a man in his 60s who runs the village clinic in Maqiao township, is not a licensed doctor, the Yongcheng City health bureau said.
A further investigation is under way to see if he is behind the outbreak, it added.
A villager, surnamed Yang, in Guoyang said Wu can cure fever and diarrhea in children with one injection that costs between 10 (US$1.60) and 20 yuan.
Yang brought his wife and nine-month-old daughter for a check at the county's medical center yesterday, as they had all received medical treatment at the clinic.
"We never saw him change the needles and don't even know what medicine he prescribed," Yang said.
A total of 104 people in Maqiao township of Henan's Yongcheng City have tested positive for Hepatitis C virus in a preliminary screening.
Of these, six were confirmed as hepatitis C patients in further tests, Yongcheng City health bureau said.
In Guoyang County in Anhui, 56 people, mostly children, have tested positive for the hepatitis C virus in a preliminary screening. Further tests on 16 confirmed 13 were infected.
An initial investigation by local health authorities showed all 56 received intravenous injections at a clinic in Maqiao and the reuse of needles at the clinic may have caused the outbreak.
Wu Wenyi, a man in his 60s who runs the village clinic in Maqiao township, is not a licensed doctor, the Yongcheng City health bureau said.
A further investigation is under way to see if he is behind the outbreak, it added.
A villager, surnamed Yang, in Guoyang said Wu can cure fever and diarrhea in children with one injection that costs between 10 (US$1.60) and 20 yuan.
Yang brought his wife and nine-month-old daughter for a check at the county's medical center yesterday, as they had all received medical treatment at the clinic.
"We never saw him change the needles and don't even know what medicine he prescribed," Yang said.
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